Mishpatim: Trust, But Verify Rabbi Bonnie Koppell A Temple Chai member approached me at the nosh a couple of weeks ago with the words, “Rabbi, can I ask you to do me a favor?” I replied, [...]
Mishpatim: Friends & Enemies Rabbi Bonnie Koppell We all have people to whom we are naturally attracted, perhaps for reasons that are not even obvious to us. There is just something about [...]
Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1-24:18 Immediately after my daughter delivered a healthy and beautiful baby girl, I was privileged to enter the recovery room, where the newborn lay snuggled on her chest, [...]
This week’s parsha, Mishpatim, is full of various and sundry laws, thus giving the parsha its name. Mishpatim occurs at an interesting time in our people’s history. We are a free people, [...]